The great battle between worlds is over, but Mo Ran and Chu Wanning’s story continues with birthday celebrations, missing sweets, and matchmaking scrolls.
Chu Wanning’s birthday is fast approaching, and Mo Ran is on the hunt for the perfect present to express his love. What he doesn’t expect is for his greatest competition in gift-giving to be his other self, Taxian-jun! Once a group of mischievous rice-cake spirits get involved, taking the battle from mundane to magical, chaos is bound to ensue.
Then, Xue Meng tries out a trendy magical device meant to match cultivators with their true love. But why do so many of his potential dates seem…strangely familiar? When Xue Meng’s disastrous love life threatens to cause mayhem throughout the cultivation realm, only the Mei twins—and a few old friends—can get him out of his predicament.
Featuring an exclusive new afterword from Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou.
'I once forsook your heart until the twilight of our years. For the rest of my life, I promise you endless days of peace.'
This is the end of a series that spanned over eleven volumes, a journey filled with emotional highs and lows. Having concluded this tumultuous yet beautiful danmei, I acknowledge that despite not every volume being equally cherished, the series remains a favorite that I would readily revisit at any moment.
The final volume is cheerful, packed with playful and joyful extras that offer a sense of closure. After enduring significant suffering and hardships faced by the characters, along with my own emotional struggles, everyone finally earns a somewhat happy ending, a long-awaited respite.
While some readers might feel disappointed that this volume does not center on Chu Wanning and Mo Ran, I personally feel satisfied with the additional content focusing on Xue Meng, who is my favorite, the darling of the heavens. These extras reveal his life after the main events, providing much-needed peace and reassurance. I appreciate that Xue Meng is not as alone as I previously believed and that he is gradually healing from past traumas.
A particular highlight is the delicate portrayal of the relationship between Xue Meng and the Mei twins. I adore their relationship, and I wish it had been explicitly canon rather than left ambiguous, yet the ambiguity itself adds an alluring layer to the relationship. I commend the author's effort in developing distinct personalities for the twins: Mei Hanxue, who is flirtatious and teases Xue Meng as an expression of affection, and Mei Hänxue, the older twin, who displays love through mockery. Their relationship is just full of warmth, born of friendship, and that's the best love story in my opinion.
Although Chu Wanning and Mo Ran appear in the volume and there is dedicated content for them, they serve more as side characters. While I wished for a little more of their story, I still felt assured by the glimpses into their happiness and ongoing love.
I can't end this review without praise for the heartfelt farewell message from the author, which was beautiful.
Overall, this last volume met all my expectations perfectly, providing both laughter and emotional satisfaction.
I'm here to say I just saw the inside art, and I swear it added at least 10 years to my lifespan. They look so happy, and I’m so fucking happy for them. I’m literally crying definitely not ready to say goodbye. Crashing out 😭😭😭!!!
this cover is everything. just look at wanning looking so soft and in love, my gorgeous baby girl!!! and MO RAN IN PINK?? hello my boy is looking dashing. march 24 please come sooner.
pre-read જ⁀➴ ╰┈➤ the cover! I'm in love!!! pink is literally my favorite color 🩷 also obsessed with all the details: them wearing the matching necklaces 🥹 mo ran holding the umbrella over wanning like he promised to 🥹 the cat & husky illustration on the umbrella 🥹 them finally happy!!! I can't wait 🫠🫠
“Slowly, the bitter partings and bloody wounds of the past were healing. The great battle receded one year, then two... At last, those old friends left behind in this world learned again how to laugh, to bicker, to endure, to adapt, and to silently remember. Just as the joung replaced the old, so too did exuberance replace sorrow, light replace darkness, and serenity replace uncertainty.”
My comfort characters….I wish it was Christmas break so I could reread the series from scratch again 😭
276 pages of Xue Meng's blind dating.... there were crumbs of Mo Ran and Chu Wanning in those chapters, but a little disappointing. The birthday story was cute. At least the cover is perfect.
gente, o que falar? acho que qualquer palavra é pouco pra explicar o quanto essa história mudou a minha vida. já faz mais de um ano que terminei de ler e ainda me pego revisitando ela todos os dias (literalmente). é engraçado pensar que mesmo depois de tantos meses eu ainda lembro de muitos detalhes vividamente
foi uma jornada que me puxou do começo ao fim, não teve um momento em que eu não estivesse completamente entregue. como grande entusiasta de relacionamentos kármicos, isso pra mim foi um banquete. o que a autora conseguiu fazer aqui é loucura: os mesmos personagens em vidas diferentes, e ainda assim a essência de cada um está ali, tão clara que às vezes eu até esqueço que o mo ran já foi o taxian jun. eu até hoje entendo como duas pessoas diferentes, tal qual hua binan e shi mei.
apesar de ser fantasia, uma das coisas que mais me marcou foi como os problemas eram profundamente mundanos e políticos. nada arruinou mais a vida do mo ran do que a pobreza. e isso é uma visão tão interessante e trágica, mesmo que ele tivesse tomado o caminho certo, a vida dele ainda seria miserável. porque uma vida inteira na pobreza e na violência não dá espaço pra finais felizes. gostei demais de como a novel mostra que até o simples ato de ter escolhas já é um privilégio. eu nunca tinha parado pra refletir nisso tão a fundo.
no fim, se você tirar todo o plano de fundo fantástico, esse livro joga na sua cara que vítimas de violência não serão perfeitas e muitas vezes reproduzirão violência também. a abundância de uma vida não apaga uma infância marcada pela pobreza e pela dor.
como falar do mo ran, o protagonista que no primeiro capitulo da sua historia apenas se mata? o primeiro it boy da china antiga!
para mim, é aquele tipo de personagem: i’m not a violent dog, i don’t know why i bite. ele nunca foi mau; ele só foi alguém sem escolhas. gosto muito de como a história mostra isso de diferentes ângulos, com o xue meng e com o shi mei. ele é de longe o personagem que mais amei, e talvez o que mais sofri acompanhando. teve momentos em que eu me sentia até grata por ele não existir de verdade, porque a vida dele era tão miserável que isso me fez sentir melhor com a minha, sinceramente, eu também teria escolhido o fim que ele escolheu (se matar na frente de todos e traumatizar a trajetória de vida deles).
é raro existir um personagem como ele: herói e vilão da própria narrativa, o fantasma que assombra sua história. até seu ato de liberdade (o suicídio) virou uma prisão. ele passou a segunda vida inteira com medo de acordar e descobrir que ainda estava lá, preso na primeira.
mas ele não era nenhum pobre coitado, muito pelo contrário! o que eu mais amo nele é que toda a tristeza da vida virou ódio, e foi desse ódio que nasceu o protagonista incrível (e tão relacionável). ter a história inteira pelo ponto de vista dele foi o melhor: você acompanha uma visão deturpada, rancorosa. o tipo de olhar que qualquer pessoa ansiosa reconhece na hora. ele é carismático e sabe disso; não só engana os outros personagens, mas engana você, leitor. eu comprei todas as micronanocausas desse querido. sem falar no humor autodepreciativo do divo, que apenas pessoas despressivas, amargas e ansiosas entenderiam!
acho que quando falamos de personagens morally gray é exatamente disso que se trata. sim, ele tinha um passado trágico, mas também era intencionalmente cruel e eu simplesmente amava isso.
sobre xue meng.. my shayla.. amo tanto ele e amo como ele e o mo ran eram opostos. sinto que xue meng sempre foi uma incógnita na vida de mo ran. ele tinha tudo o que o mo ran perdeu, aquela inocência de olhar para a vida e não ver mal algum nela. boy, so confusing.. mo ran não sabia se o odiava ou apenas o invejava.
a relação dos dois é a minha favorita da novel, justamente por ser tão complexa. a única pessoa que mo ran nunca matou em duas vidas foi xue meng. e, mesmo com tudo que mo ran destruiu, xue meng nunca conseguiu odia-lo (não de verdade). ele era seu inimigo, mas também seu irmão. a pessoa que ele dividiu a infância, e que amou. xue meng sofreu o luto do irmão, enquanto ele ainda estava vivo.
amo como na segunda vida xue meng desenvolveu um instinto protetor com o mo ran e ouso dizer que ele é a pessoa que mais amava o mo ran na história toda.
shi mei, por outro lado, é o espelho do mo ran. duas vidas igualmente trágicas, dois caminhos inevitavelmente violentos. nunca vou odiar o shi mei. ele só fez o que fez para sobreviver, e acho que, no fim, ele foi ainda mais miserável que o mo ran, porque terminou sozinho, precisou abrir mão de si mesmo por um bem maior. dizem que ele é o vilão, mas pra mim, se a história tivesse sido contada pelos olhos dele, ele seria o herói. e, de certa forma, foi.
chu wanning… meu casal favorito de todos. acho que amo tanto o mo ran porque me vejo no chu wanning. o que me emocionava na relação deles eram os detalhes: o companheirismo, a paciência. ele é alguém que eu queria ter na vida e também alguém que eu queria ser.
agora, os pontos que não gostei: a autora esqueceu da existencia do shi mei, sendo que, sem ele, a história nem existiria. faltou polir seus motivos. nunca sei se na segunda vida ele se sentiu grato, acolhido, ou só cansou da própria vingança. e o final dele? simplesmente péssimo. isso for tortura!!!!! sadismo!!!!!
e o final do xue meng… odiei também. deprimente. ele perdeu absolutamente todo mundo em uma única semana horrível. não acho justo torturar um personagem e chamar isso de desenvolvimento. ele foi o único em toda a história que nunca fez nada de errado, só sofreu as consequências das escolhas dos outros. parecia que a autora só queria pesar AINDA MAIS o clima
quanto aos secundários: irrelevantes. não me apeguei a nenhum e, quando tomavam espaço na narrativa, eu queria passar correndo. já temos um núcleo principal fortíssimo, não precisava de arcos inteiros pros coadjuvantes. I DON’T CARE ABOUT HOMELESS PEOPLE.
na época em que li eu tinha mais reclamações.. achei o final um devaneio maluco, com mil coisas acontecendo, mas hoje já aceitei. não foi perfeito, mas em nada isso diminui o quanto amei essa história.
e aqui vai o ponto polêmico: essa novel não atinge o público que deveria. gente, isso não é uma história de amor. é frustrante ver como reduzem quatro mil páginas de um dos melhores discursos sociais que já li na vida a um “romance”. vamos parar de fazer quadradinho de 8 e pensar um pouquinho?
acho realmente que nenhuma outra novel vai ser como essa foi pra mim. vidas kármicas, viagens no tempo e personagens morally gray (and gay), isso aqui foi PRA MIM!
"Did you know the most wonderful dreams are rarely ever true?"
"The only person he had never been before was himself."
"I hate you, Chu Wanning. I really hate you so much. But you're all I have left."
"When Mo Ran was young, he had wanted to be a good person. But that small, gentle wish of his, much like other little wishes had become nothing more than memories, blown away by the wind and scattered in the snow."
"Another year gone, yet still I wait, for you do not return. For you do not return. Never again"
"A misunderstanding of one year is a misunderstanding. A misunderstanding of ten years is an injustice. A misunderstanding of a lifetime, from life unto death, is fate"
"Mo Ran had been unconsciously looking for Chu Wanning's shadow in the world; unable to find him, he had instead slowly become him."
"Time marched on. And I, due to remorse, or perhaps something else. I couldn't see you, but always I thought what you would do if you were here; what would make you smile, what would make you mad. I thought about you before doing anything, tried make you proud with everything that I did. I thought, "If you were here, and I did this, would you nod? Would you be willing to praise me a lit- tle, say I did okay?" Day after day I thought about this, until it had permeated my very bones, become second nature. That's why, as time went on, I never even realized. That as the days had passed, I'd grown into the you I held in my heart."
"Why do people need to accompany one another so often in life, when the east wind can carry love?"
"Everyone hoped that this world would be fair, but his fate was unfair from the moment he was born. he will pay for his sins. he will repay what he owes to this world. but what this world owes him. will anyone return it to him? will anyone repay him?"
In this final volume of extra stories, Chu Wanning navigates a married life with a possessive man with split personality who gets jealous of himself; Taxian-jun continues being an all-around menace to anyone and everyone (destroying property, stealing porn, kidnapping sect leaders) while Mo Ran deals with the consequences; the almost-thirty year old virgin Xue Meng gives dating a chance (and ends up going on a date with his own father); Jiang Xi gets more screentime than in the entirety of the main story (against his will, mind you); Ma Yun turns into a bee; a magical item gets so upset over the bad reviews it got that it gains sentience; rice cake spirits turn out to actually exist (bringing many puzzling questions, such as: did Mo Ran manifest rice cake spirits into existence back then or have they always been around? Can you eat the rice cake spirits? Should you eat sentient beings if they are delicious cakes? What do they taste like?); Mo Ran gets cockblocked by a puppy; Mei Hangxue experiences an unexpected sexual awakening (after seemingly experiencing everything the world of pleasure has to offer) and Mei Hänxue really doesn’t want to be involved in any of this nonsense. That, and a lot of crossdressing/gender swapping.
Everything is low stakes relaxing fun (maybe not relaxing for Chu Wanning, who has to deal with Taxian-jun’s drama), much needed reprieve after the insanity that was the main story finale.
I can’t believe my years long journey with Husky and his White Cat Shizun is over 😭 but I see many rereads in the future… (so far I have read the main story twice, the extras once)
ooohhhh ranwan in pink, in love, in matching outfits, in matching pendants 🥺💗 can march 2026 come faster. i’m in desperate need of reading post-canon ranwan living so domestically in seclusion with their dog. and the blind dating shenanigans
I really enjoyed these extra stories; they were all a lot of fun. The first story about Xue Meng's disastrous blind dates was one that left me wanting more . The reveals were also so much fun to discover . The second story, which was the forum discussion about a magical box of chocolates going missing, was just pure chaos, and once again, using clues from throughout the series to match who each of the usernames' real personas were. The final story about Chu Wanning's birthday reminded me of how much I love the complicated relationship between Taxian-Jun, Mo Ran, and Chu Wanning. The love between all of them and the angst is incredible.
I have a lot of feelings about the ending of Erha, but I can't give this more than a 2.5 because I don't want to and will not be reading over half this volume. I only read the final extra which is the Chu Wanning birthday one.
I really just truly wish Meat Bun had ended Erha at volume 6 or 7 and started a new, different spin off series all about Xue Meng because I cannot explain how upset I am about her completely throwing away ranwan in favor of writing about XM. Both volume 9 and 10 seemed to make him the main character and then ranwan barely even appeared in the final chapter of their story.
I am reading Erha - the Husky and his White Cat Shizen FOR THE HUSKY AND THE WHITE CAT. I'm not reading for other characters, I want RANWAN, and I am just so incredibly annoyed, upset, and frustrated at meatbun about this entire thing. I just don't understand how she wrote the most beautiful, intense, tragic, and wonderful romance I've ever read and threw it all away at the final stretch of the story. With how little ranwan we got in the last few volumes it really felt like all that suffering and tragedy porn was for nothing. You can't torture your characters like this and then give them a few pages in the final chapter and 1 extra at the very end of the story.
Do these extra chapters fit the overall vibe of the main story? Nope. Am I mad about it? Absolutely not. This entire book is basically a post canon fluffy reward for the trauma endured from the main story line.
It’s good laughs and just a lot of fun if you in particular love Xue Meng and also want a little more closure for him and his relationship with Wanning and Mo Ran.
I’m so sad that this is the final piece to closing this series but it was an absolute pleasure and honour to read. Truly I will never get over this series.
I can't believe erha has an ending......... honestly i have said all my thoughts abt the main story in my book 10 review and there's nothing that i want to add for the extras, i loved the chat type extra for mengmeng losing his candies and that's about it. im just so sad abt it ending like im so connected to ranwan at this point i can't imagine not having something to look forward to now :( but this was a beautiful journey and i really recommend this book despite its length and all the trauma it comes with
The main story of course ended in vol 10, so this one was all extras. After all the angst, this book was quite lighthearted and funny (with some moments of tenderness). While I admittedly wished the Xue Meng extras hadn't taken up so much of the book (no hate to Xue Meng), they were funny, if over the top at times.
I love this danmei series so much. After all the characters went through, I am glad they found happiness.
i'm just not a fan of extras that lean so hard into comedy sitcom territory. with that bias, this volume wasn't for me, but it could be for someone else!
the second-hand embarrassment was very strong here, and i truly wish the mengmeng extras dedicated even one chapter to meeting that disciple of his. 🥹
es increíble lo mucho que me enganchó la lectura desde el primer momento y lo mucho que adoré esta historia, ya va a ser un año desde que la terminé y sigo recordando con mucho cariño a los personajes y todo su desarrollo T T los amo ranwan
that was a very long story and i came to the end, i felt every feelings in this series, it is had a very special side for me. when i write this comment, i cried so much. that felt like i am leaving my home, my world, my everything. will miss mo ran, chu wanning and everyone.
I love them so much, they're so important to me 🥹 Xue Meng's extra was funny but Chu Wanning's birthday extra was so precious, I love ranwan and I'm happy that they finally have a life filled with peace and joy.